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Like a phrenetic, forceful, energetic, jazzy, sentimental, occasionally erudite and rarely emotional or reverent daily paper, this program of Powell, Piston, Shepherd, Harris, and Bennett told the American story of today for all who cared to exert themselves to hear. Unfortunately, not all who came listened. It was easier to sit back after the brave Star Spangled Banner and John Powell's Negro melodies from Dixie and wear a slightly supercilious smile. It is the approved attitude and thought to be eminently safe...
...planes of 125 h. p. or less, was won by Roy Liggett of Wichita. In a tiny red Cessna with clipped wings and retractable landing gear he easily led the field around the triangular course at 194 m.p.h. The Curtiss Trophy, for planes of 500 to 800 cu. in. piston displacement, went also to a Cessna flown by Alton B. Sherman of Hyannis, Mass...
Legionnaire Piston...
...Gorgulov shot France's President Paul Doumer last May, a group of newsphotographers were witnesses. They had their lenses focussed on the President to snap him as he autographed book for War veterans' benefit. The Picture of the Century-the assassination -occurred at that moment. Bearded Louis Piston, who has been photographing celebrities around Paris for 45 years, dropped his flash, swung his camera overhead, clubbed Assassin Gorgulov with it. Photographer Piston got no picture. Last week it became known that he had been elevated to the Legion of Honor. U. S. newsphotographers are notoriously less polite than...
Long years ago the future President Paul Doumer attended the wedding of the future dean of Paris cameramen. Last week it came about that bearded Photographer Piston was standing with his flashlight upraised, his camera trained on the patriarchal President at the precise instant when a tall, burly Russian bounded forward and fired point-blank at M. Doumer with a Colt pistol. Instantly dropping his flashlight, Photographer Piston wielded his camera like a club, beating the assassin over the head, stunning him momentarily-and throwing away the chance to make a Picture of the Century...